Geffen Playhouse Removes Neil LaBute's 'Fat Pig' From Schedule

UDPATED with Chrissy Metz having left production in January: The Geffen Playhouse today said it was removing its production of Neil LaBute’s Fat Pig from the Los Angeles theater’s 2017-2018 schedule. The axing of the play, which at one point was to star This Is Us‘ Chrissy Metz in her stage debut, comes less than two weeks after the off-Broadway MCC Theater severed ties with LaBute, its longtime playwright-in-residence, and canceled his new play Reasons To Be Pretty Happy…